End of year post

Well, 2025 is done, thank the Lord.

2025 was rough on a personal level, I am hoping for a better 2026. (Nothing life threatening, everyone in my circle is healthy, it was just a bummer of a year it seems. Maybe you felt that way too.)

As I have been driving around for work the past couple of days I have been taking a personal inventory, we probably all do that a little bit. And I was shocked at how out of control my life seems to be, I have just too much sh*t going on. So I thought about it and decided an I need to get back to basics, I need to live a more minimal life. 

To hell with sports, to hell with Netflix, to hell with bullfighting (yeah, kind of a shocker for me to say that.) to hell with a lot of stuff. I need to see what is gobbling up my time and see if I can't get rid of it. 

You might be saying, "good luck with that, it"s impossible." But I really need to figure it out, I need to try and enjoy life again.

Anyway, below I have posted a New York Times article about the abrupt retirement of Morante de la Puebla. It was a surprise, nobody expected it, and he did it after a triumphant October afternoon in the bullring of Madrid. After this article I am going to try and put the bullfighting aside, and see if clears my mind some. 

What about soccer you ask?, the World Cup is coming up!

Nope, not interested, not even in the slightest. I can just see the posers now, everyone hopping on the soccer bandwagon. It will be enough to make me vomit. I was thinking the other day though that when the time comes, maybe, and I really mean maybe, I will choose one team and just follow them and see how they do through the tournament. Japan perhaps, or maybe Brazil. I don't know, we will see. 

What about the USL and their first season with promotion and relegation? Yeah, probably when Spring rolls around I will start to look at that just a little. Again, I don't want anything to occupy too much of my mind and time, I need to minimize, remember?, minimalism is the goal for 2026!

So, time for bed, time to sleep. No New Year's partying for me, I am way too old for that. 

Peace y'all.